Cursor jumps, missing keystrokes

[pdeinc]

Sony laptop, 1.2 Ghz, 256K, WinXP & now W2K - Spybot & adaware, McAfee. Frequently when booted up, cursor will lag then jump ahead and when typing, keystrokes are missed.

No suspicious process running, CPU & memory usage low, I'm out of ideas!

[liljim]

I had this problem on a compaq laptop quite some time back.McAfee was causing it.Switched to PC-Cillin and havent had any probs since.This may not be you situation but i would reboot without McAfee running and see if it helps.

[brad]

When did this start? Try what liljim suggests. If that doesn't get it try reloading (updating) the drivers for the Touchpad and Keyboard.
brad

[pdeinc]

Thanks for the responses - it was doing it before McAfee was installed, but I have disabled the A/V just to make sure. All the drivers were reloaded when I changed from XP to 2000.

I was even suspicious of XP being part of the problem but nothing changed by going to W2K. All things considered, since I can't find any memory or CPU hog running, no viruses or spyware, I'm almost inclined to believe that it is a driver problem, just an intermittant one. I might see if I can find any updated drivers from Sony. Until then I'm still open to other suggestions.

[pdeinc]

No updated drivers available but there was a BIOS update available so I downloaded and installed it. So far no problems, I'll post an update in about a week.